Patrick E. Sharbaugh Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, PT

• I lead strategic, product, and service design, and conduct qualitative user research, across diverse industries and international cultures
• Facilitator and coach for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s LEAD Incubator, using design thinking to build disruptive real-world Bay Area startups
• Research clients have included Google Vietnam, SONOS, Samsung, and Disney
• Strategic and service design clients included Portland Gas and Electric, RMIT University, the Victorian Justice Department, Liberty Financial, and R Corp Residential Development

Boston, MA, US

As Aquent's in-house expert on CX and strategic and service design, I work directly with their Fortune 500 client base to identify problems and opportunities for those roles, and I assess all strategic and service design candidates for placement.

Boston, MA, US

As VP of Community and Customer Engagement at Aquent, I organized and grew their national community of in-house Senior Design Leaders, InsideOut, and regularly facilitated conversations among the senior-most design leads at some of the U.S.’s most recognizable brands. I continue to serve as an Expert Advisor on Design Strategy and Service Design for Aquent.

San Francisco, California, US

The MURAL Consultant Network is a global community of leading independent consultants, agencies, and facilitators deeply committed to fostering creative innovation and work transformation. They are constantly working to bring Design Thinking practices to their clients and leverage MURAL as a visual workspace to enhance their creative collaboration and.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

I served as a LUMA lead instructor, facilitator, and coach for a portfolio of global enterprise clients. I helped clients understand how a structured approach to innovation can be a critical asset in their ability to grow and prosper in the 21st century. I facilitated, taught and helped scale design thinking literacy in the service of innovation for LUMA.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• I developed new business for LUMA and guideed our global enterprise clients in integrating our design thinking system and digital platform across their workforce
• Collaborated closely with LUMA’s internal teams to innovate around our products and strategy
• A master workshop designer and facilitator who’s worked across continents and cultures, in person and virtually
• My business portfolio included Apple, Accenture Global, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Kroger, HPE, Slack and others
• Facilitated outcome-driven workshops internationally for clients from Starbucks, Netflix, & Standard Chartered to Prudential, etc.

As lead organizer of Portland Design Thinkers, I steered one of the largest communities of human-centered designers and enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest. I led and coordinated a weekly program of in-person and virtual events across a range of interests that included guest speakers, hands-on methods and practice-based sessions, social/networking.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• In RMIT's prestigious Graduate School of Business and Law, I co-developed and taught Design Thinking for Business in the school's Executive MBA program, where current Australian business leaders learn how to use the.
• Developed and taught nearly a dozen course curricula across communication and design
• Facilitator and coach for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s LEAD Incubator, using design thinking to build disruptive real-world Bay Area startups, from concept to investor-ready MVP.

Founder, producer, and chief editor for AsiaDigitalLife.com, a cross-platform, multimedia community dedicated to examining the unique ways Asian people and cultures interact and engage with new Internet and digital technologies.Produce daily content for a dedicated website/blog, a Facebook page of 35,000+ followers, a Twitter feed, and an audio podcast at.

Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh, VN

Winner of RMIT's Vietnam’s 2012 Award for Excellence in Teaching | Developed and delivered six Professional Communications courses for RMIT’s Centre of Communication & Design, including Visual Language, Media & Social Relations, Asian Cybercultures, Negotiating Transnational Agreements, Theories of Communication & Persuasion, and Public Relations Writing.

Co-founded boutique tour provider Vietnam Vespa Adventures, providing tours of Saigon and coastal Vietnam on vintage Vespa scooters | Established VVA as one of Vietnam's most well-known and trusted tour companies, achieving a ranking of #3 out of 137 activities in Saigon and a 5-Star customer rating on TripAdvisor | Successfully secured editorial coverage.

Oversaw and directed editorial content for the award-winning weekly alternative newspaper the Charleston City Paper (circ. 45,000) in Charleston, SC. Managed a team of three full-time in-house staff writers, several dozen freelance writers, and a revolving team of three to four interns | Wrote an average of 1500-2,000 words in news and feature articles.

Managed the national, regional and local deployment of proprietary technology for a multimillion-dollar media print-to-web tech company with the directors of some of the U.S.’s largest publications, including Forbes, Wired, Parade, Family Circle, Parents, Rosie, YM, and Gear. | Assisted in coordinating all aspects of the distribution and adoption of our.

Founder and artistic director of First Night Charleston, an annual performing and visual arts festival comprising more than 500 performing and visual artists and more than 40 venues across the city, which culminated in Charleston's official Millennium Eve celebration. Managed and implemented all aspects of marketing, public relations and fundraising for.

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, US

Progressed through a series of promotions, culminating in Editor in Chief, where I managed all content for award-winning glossy Charleston magazine, a high-end regional consumer and lifestyles publication | Led and managed an interdisciplinary team of of writers and section editors, art directors, graphic designers, photographers and illustrators in.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Communications And Design

Graduate Certificate In Tertiary Teaching & Learning, Pedagogy

Bachelor Of Science, Biological And Physical Sciences